Exterior view of mine buildings, adits, and quarries of Colorado Yule Marble Company, 4 miles south of Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado; two of the three quarry openings are visible. The 50 ton electric crane is anchored by cables to the quarry...

View southward to the Colorado Yule Marble Company quarries four miles south of Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado; wooden steps (stairway with railing) leads to upper adits and buildings; crane is anchored to quarry walls with pulley system below...

Interior view of a marble quarry at the Colorado-Yule Marble Company Quarries four miles south of Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado; shows three channeling machines for drilling vertical holes, with channeling tracks on ledge and wooden timbers...

View looking southward from the east side of Yule Creek, shows mining equipment precariously aligned on an exposed vein of marble at the quarries on the west side of Yule Creek, four miles south of Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado. The third...

View of the First Congregational Church located at 717 4th Avenue, Lyons, Colorado. The church is constructed of hand-cut red sandstone from nearby quarries. The structure has twenty-inch-thick walls supported by a stone foundation. The most...

View of the Windsor Hotel located at the southeast corner of Grande Avenue (U.S. 160) and Columbia Street, Del Norte, Colorado. The basic structure of the two-story Italianate style hotel is constructed of rhyolite from local quarries. The hotel...

A dome tops the tower on the Douglas County Courthouse in Castle Rock, Colorado. The building was first occupied in 1890, and construction was finally completed in 1901. The building was made of granite mined from quarries in the Castle Rock area....

Lyons depot, December 1975, prior to restoration and conversion into the Lyons Public Library. This structure was built by the narrow gauge Denver, Utah and Pacific. The 1877 [?] rough cut sandstone solid building has boarded up windows, and a...

Exterior photograph of the Curry-Chucovich House, located in Denver, Colorado. Architect Fred Hale designed the 1887-88 sandstone townhouse using elements of Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles. The building is the oldest remaining...

Exterior photograph of the Curry-Chucovich House, located in Denver, Colorado. Architect Fred Hale designed the 1887-88 sandstone townhouse using elements of Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles. The building is the oldest remaining...

View of Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado, shows frame dwellings and commercial buildings. Carbonate Creek valley leads to the Elk Mountains in the distance. The dirt road at the lower left angling up-right is Center Street which today is the flow...

In Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado, on the grounds of the marble mill site, a 56 ton block of marble is on a flatbed railcar, with a frame crate and steps built around it. A sign reads: "Marble Block for Tomb of Unknown Soldier Arlington...